Stuff to Do, Week of July 29, 2005
Melissa
mel at pressgangrocks.com
Tue Aug 2 18:58:36 EDT 2005
PS folks - even if you've haven't seen the documentary "Dig!" and
noticed the cult revival going on around Anton Newcombe's music (and
subsequent mass media exposure...) You may want to check out this
latest incarnation of The Brian Jonestown Massacre on the 5th at the
506. Old members are magically reappearing on this tour and The Quarter
After are another BJM spin-off a la Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Not a
show to miss according to my little twisted psych-infused/enthused
heart.
Thanks for having these guys play here Glenn.
Mel
> Friday, August 5
> Brian Jonestown Massacre [http://www.bomp.com/BJM.html], Quarter After
> [http://www.thequarterafter.com/], Innaway
> [http://www.innawaymusic.com/], Glissade
> [http://www.myspace.com/glissade]
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
On Friday, July 29, 2005, at 06:28 PM, grady wrote:
> Welcome home, Sean Moore!
>
>
> Friday, July 29
> Wives [http://www.myspace.com/wives], Jakuta & Carl
> [http://jnc.hlinak.com/], Modern Day Urban Barbarians
> [http://www.mdub.com/], Torch Marauder, Cantwell, Gomez, Jordan
> [http://www.cantwellgomezandjordan.com]
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Dave Cantwell's synopses are always perfect, so:
>
> THE TORCH MARAUDER=OK, if yr getting this email, you probably know the
> deal. Just to recap: "Widen the lids of your eyes..." "But have you
> seen
> the back?" "We need a drummer for this one..." "Bear with us, we’re a
> live band" "I’m 5000."
>
> CANTWELLGOMEZ&JORDAN=Feeling frisky--maybe it's all these birthdays and
> weddings...
>
> MODERN DAY URBAN BARBARIANS=Our pals from Brooklyn. If Lightning Bolt
> listened to a lot of Hendrix, and then wrote pop songs…you’d love it.
>
> JAKUTA & CARL=A friendly, nerdy guy and his computer play wonderfully
> damaged “pop” for you…A Protoblast for the 21st Century (if you know
> what that means, then you know you have to be there…).
>
> WIVES=Punk from Cali. I suppose this doesn’t mean what it used to,
> which
> is probably a good thing.
>
>
>
> Friday, July 29
> Superchunk [http://www.superchunk.com], Tennis and the Mennonites
> [http://www.tennisandthemennonites.com]
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
> Superchunk set the gold standard for jumping around onstage, and
> playing
> guitars that go sproing!, and singing in a high voice, and making the
> drummer play one fast song after another with precious little gaps
> between for witty banter. Their shadow is so huge that even now, 10
> full
> years after the apex of the whole Chapel Hill Scene brouhaha, it's
> still
> common to see an indie-rock band dismissed as "sounds like Superchunk."
>
> Openers Tennis and the Mennonites sound less like Superchunk than like
> S'chunk's old Merge labelmates Erectus Monotone, but they mostly sound
> like themselves, which is weird, but in a good way.
>
>
>
> Friday, July 29
> Thor [http://www.thorcentral.com], Widow
> Kings, Raleigh
>
> Thor is a big beefy bodybuilder / fantasy-poster-model / metal god.
> He's
> also a pretty funny guy, who is well aware that his chosen career is a
> wee bit goofy. Unlike, say, Glenn Danzig. Plus I'll bet Glenn Danzig
> has
> never blown up a hot water bottle until it burst. If you asked Glenn
> Danzig to make a balloon animal, he'd probably get a nosebleed and go
> pout on his bus.
>
>
>
> Saturday, July 30
> ANTiSEEN [http://www.antiseen.com], Lustre
> [http://lustre.soundforsound.org/], Knowledge is for Fools
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> ANTiSEEN have been making scum-rock in the greater Charlotte area for
> fuck, I dunno, 18 years or something insane like that. The scar tissue
> on frontman Jeff Clayton's forehead must be a foot thick by now.
> [visualize: beer bottle, broken, grind, grind, bleed, etc]
>
>
>
> Sunday, July 31
> Robo Sapien [http://www.gorobosapien.com/]
> WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham
>
> Robo Sapien were a Bay-area (or Chicago, depending on your concept of
> time & space) hip-hop/electro/disco duo until last month, when they
> magically became a Chapel Hill hip-hop/electro/disco duo. Their new EP
> "Where The Beat End Up" (on Chapel Hill's FrequeNC label) is a thick
> slab of bass, stuttering beats and snotty-but-right call-and-response
> vocals. It's great, and I'm pleased as punch they've decided to follow
> up their pleasantly mild Chicago winter with an equally pleasantly mild
> NC summer.
>
> I say this occasionally, but this time I mean it: Come by the station &
> get down in person with Whitney & Chad; they play better with sweaty
> bodies nearby. 5:00 p.m. 88.7 FM or www.wxdu.org.
>
>
>
> Sunday, July 31
> John Wilkes Booze [http://www.johnwilkesbooze.com], In the Year of the
> Pig [http://www.southernloveprod.com/ityotp.htm]
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Our pals at Nightlight explicate for you:
>
> "Bloomington’s mighty JWB play fucked-up & furious electric soul + r&b
> with the expected instrumentation + electronics, lyrics about Marc
> Bolan
> making them want to fuck, etc. I’ve heard they put on an awesome show.
> Releases on Kill Rock Stars. ITYOTP is angry animal-themed
> bass-drums-vox grooviness, from right here in Chapel Hill."
>
>
>
> Wednesday, August 3
> Engine Down [http://www.enginedown.com/], Bella Lea
> [http://www.bellalea.com/], des_ark [http://www.des-ark.org], Ben Davis
> + The Calculators [http://www.lovitt.com/artists/bendavis.html]
> Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
>
> This is the farewell tour for VA's Engine Down, about whom I know only
> that they were Lovitt Records mainstays for many years, although their
> last album was on Lookout. Former members of Sleepytime Trio &
> Bughummer. Etc.
>
> Ben Davis is also a former member of Sleepytime Trio. Sometimes his
> Calculators are a live loud band; other times they're a real
> calculator,
> with buttons.
>
> des_ark are going to be on tour with Engine Down for the entire month
> of
> August, which may as well be an eternity, so think of this as your last
> chance to see them for what may well feel like forever.
>
>
>
> Wednesday, August 3
> My Dear Ella [http://www.mydearella.com], Bellglide
> [http://www.bellglide.com/], A Problem of Alarming Dimensions
> [http://www.8088records.com/problemofalarmingdimensions/]
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
> Thursday, August 4
> The Sames [http://www.thesames.com], North Elementary
> [http://www.northelementary.com], The Balance
> [http://www.thebalanceband.com/]
> Joe & Jo's, Durham
>
> Venues may come and go in Durham, but Joe & Jo's is still Joe & Jo's,
> the neighborhood bar & grill for the virtual neighborhood of Durham
> artists, musicians, bohemians and regular folks. They're always willing
> to step up & host a show; tonight's includes the guitarrry wall-of-pop
> of the Sames, the woozy stoner-pop of North Elementary, and the
> power-pop-rock of Raleigh's The Balance.
>
>
>
> Thursday, August 4
> The Avett Brothers [http://www.theavettbrothers.com], Langhorne Slim
> [http://www.langhorneslim.com/]
> Lincoln Theater, Raleigh
>
>
>
> Thursday, August 4
> Tall Dwarfs [http://www.flyingnun.co.nz/viewartist.cfm?artistID=336],
> Fan Modine [http://www.grimsey.com/fanmodine.html]
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> Tall Dwarfs are one of the group of seminal New Zealand bands who
> shaped-from-afar the face of indie-rock in the 90s (and the 80s,
> actually--Tall Dwarfs been around for 25+ years). They were lo-fi long
> before the phrase existed.
>
> Fan Modine are an elaborate conceptual pop confection, with lots of
> laptop orchestration and some mournfully witty lyrics that wouldn't
> necessarily shy away from a MagFields comparison.
>
>
>
> Friday, August 5
> Brian Jonestown Massacre [http://www.bomp.com/BJM.html], Quarter After
> [http://www.thequarterafter.com/], Innaway
> [http://www.innawaymusic.com/], Glissade
> [http://www.myspace.com/glissade]
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
>
>
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